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Fast Forward Russian Jews Push Back at Campaign Against Ukraine Oligarch
A senior Russian rabbi accused the country’s communist party of “vulgar and primitive anti-Semitism” after it demanded Russian Jews condemn a Ukrainian Jewish oligarch. The condemnation Wednesday by Rabbi Boruch Gorin, an advisor to Chief Russian Rabbi Berel Lazar and Lazar’s spokesperson, followed a letter that two communist lawmakers sent last week to Lazar and…
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Fast Forward Canadian Youth Hockey Coach Fired for Nazi Facebook Rant
A youth hockey coach in suburban Vancouver was fired for posting Nazi propaganda on social media. Christopher Maximilian Sandau, 33, was fired earlier this month by the North Delta Minor Hockey Association after refusing to remove the posts from his Facebook page, CTV News reported. He also denies the Holocaust. Sandau’s Facebook page included images…
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Fast Forward ISIS Fighter With Jewish Roots Killed in Syria
A young French Muslim whose father is Jewish died while fighting with jihadists in Syria. Raphael Amar, 22, died last month in Deir ez-Zor in Syria’s east, according to a report Tuesday by the Israeli daily Ma’ariv, which was confirmed by Sammy Ghozlan, founder of the National Bureau for Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism, or BNVCA. Amar,…
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Fast Forward Court Allows Tel Aviv Markets To Open on Shabbat
A Tel Aviv court ruled that supermarkets may remain open on the Sabbath in the municipality. Tuesday’s ruling denied a city request that the court require the stores to heed municipal attempts to keep stores closed on Saturdays. It is illegal in Israel to open retail businesses on the Jewish Sabbath, which begins at sundown…
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Fast Forward N.Y. Clinic That Treated Joan Rivers Made Mistakes, Federal Investigation Finds
The New York City clinic that treated comedian Joan Rivers made several errors, including not noticing her deteriorating vital signs during surgery, according to a federal investigation. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released its report on Monday. Rivers, 81, died on Sept. 4, a week after being rushed to Manhattan’s Mount Sinai…
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Fast Forward Yehuda Glick Breathing On Own After Shooting
Yehuda Glick, the Temple Mount activist shot in a failed assassination attempt, is communicating and breathing on his own. Glick until Tuesday had been on a respirator at Shaarey Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem since the Oct. 29 attack outside a city conference center. The speaker of Israel’s Knesset, Yuli Edelstein, wrote Tuesday afternoon in…
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Fast Forward Suburban Chicago Synagogue Vandal Planned To ‘Shoot Jews’
Prosecutors in an Illinois county have asked a judge to revoke the bail of a man charged with vandalizing a synagogue because he said he planned to “shoot Jews.” John White, 40, of Westmont, Ill., was charged last month with a hate crime for allegedly vandalizing Congregation Etz Chaim in Lombard, a Chicago suburb. White’s…
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Fast Forward Australia Anti-Semitism Rises by 35%
Anti-Semitic incidents in Australia soared by more than a third in the past year. The annual Report on Anti-Semitic Incidents in Australia, presented Sunday at the Executive Council of Australian Jewry’s annual general meeting, logged 312 incidents between October 2013 and September 2014, about a 35 percent increase from 231 incidents the previous year. Much…
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